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How DL Shareef Miller, Kevin Givens fared at the NFL Combine — and why Givens’ praise didn’t last

Penn State defensive lineman Kevin Givens runs a drill during the NFL football scouting combine, Sunday, March 3, 2019, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Darron Cummings AP

Thanks to a testing error, no defensive player saw a more up-and-down day at the NFL Combine than Penn State’s Kevin Givens.

Both Givens and Shareef Miller took part in Sunday’s portion of the combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and experienced success in different areas. But Givens initially sent Twitter ablaze after NFL Network’s telecast showed an unofficial 40-yard dash time of 4.87 seconds — a time that, nearly an hour later, was corrected to 5.